TRAGIC FAMINE
RURAL NORTH JAPAN SEVEN MILLIONS STARVE FAILURE OF RICE CROPS FARMERS SELL CHILDREN NO FOOD, BUT ARMAMENTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Tokio, Nov. 23. Seven million people famine-stricken in rural areas in half a dozen of the northernmost prefectures are facing an unprecedented plight, attributable to a succession of rice crop failures. Relief agencies are demanding that the Government rehabilitate destitute primitive farmers and save them from shameful social evils, such as selling daughters. It is estimated that 59,173 girls were sold in nine months and consigned to the yoshiwara (State-controlled brothels),, for service in questionable cafes and for forced labour in low-wage factories. The Government professes to be financially unable to assist, yet to-day’s Cabinet approved an unprecedented two billion yen budget, including enormous military armament requirements. The newspapers, with the headline “Save Tohoku Sufferers,” have begun a nation-wide campaign for food and clothing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 5
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